Adult Entertainment (album)

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Adult Entertainment
Raffi adultentertainment.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 4, 1977
RecordedAugust 1977
Genre Folk, folk rock
Length40:44
Label Troubadour
Producer Don Potter
Raffi chronology
Singable Songs for the Very Young
(1976)
Adult Entertainment
(1977)
More Singable Songs
(1977)

Adult Entertainment is Raffi's third LP album for his Troubadour label, released in 1977. [1] This is the second of two records Raffi made with adult listeners in mind (the first being 1975's Good Luck Boy ). Apart from several self-penned songs, Raffi also covers songs from Jesse Winchester ("Yankee Lady") and fellow Canadian folk artist Stan Rogers ("Forty-Five Years"). This album was later released as "Lovelight" (1980). [2] It is currently not available in CD format.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Raffi, unless otherwise noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Forty-Five Years" (Stan Rogers)3:58
2."Little Kristin January 28"5:23
3."Out in the Yard"2:39
4."Wish I Were A Child Again"3:52
5."Wind Blows Over The Bay" (D'Arcy Wickham)3:40
6."Yankee Lady" (Jesse Winchester)4:26
7."Starvin Marvin"5:30
8."Undecided" (Sid Robin, Charles Shavers)2:21
9."Evangeline" (Robbie MacNeill)2:40
10."Lovelight"6:03
Total length:40:44

Personnel

Adapted from LP liner notes.

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